Here's the big driver core and sysfs patch set for 3.14-rc1.
There's a lot of work here moving sysfs logic out into a "kernfs" to
allow other subsystems to also have a virtual filesystem with the same
attributes of sysfs (handle device disconnect, dynamic creation /
removal as needed / unneeded, etc. This is primarily being done for
the cgroups filesystem, but the goal is to also move debugfs to it when
it is ready, solving all of the known issues in that filesystem as well.
The code isn't completed yet, but all should be stable now (there is a
big section that was reverted due to problems found when testing.)
There's also some other smaller fixes, and a driver core addition that
allows for a "collection" of objects, that the DRM people will be using
soon (it's in this tree to make merges after -rc1 easier.)
All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big driver core and sysfs patch set for 3.14-rc1.
There's a lot of work here moving sysfs logic out into a "kernfs" to
allow other subsystems to also have a virtual filesystem with the same
attributes of sysfs (handle device disconnect, dynamic creation /
removal as needed / unneeded, etc)
This is primarily being done for the cgroups filesystem, but the goal
is to also move debugfs to it when it is ready, solving all of the
known issues in that filesystem as well. The code isn't completed
yet, but all should be stable now (there is a big section that was
reverted due to problems found when testing)
There's also some other smaller fixes, and a driver core addition that
allows for a "collection" of objects, that the DRM people will be
using soon (it's in this tree to make merges after -rc1 easier)
All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (113 commits)
kernfs: associate a new kernfs_node with its parent on creation
kernfs: add struct dentry declaration in kernfs.h
kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()
Revert "kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()"
Revert "kernfs: replace kernfs_node->u.completion with kernfs_root->deactivate_waitq"
Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_ACTIVE_REF and add kernfs_lockdep()"
Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_REMOVED"
Revert "kernfs: restructure removal path to fix possible premature return"
Revert "kernfs: invoke kernfs_unmap_bin_file() directly from __kernfs_remove()"
Revert "kernfs: remove kernfs_addrm_cxt"
Revert "kernfs: make kernfs_get_active() block if the node is deactivated but not removed"
Revert "kernfs: implement kernfs_{de|re}activate[_self]()"
Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"
Revert "pci: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
Revert "scsi: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
Revert "s390: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"
Revert "kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()"
kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()
drivers/base: provide an infrastructure for componentised subsystems
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